隐喻政治与政治隐喻--以美国总统奥巴马的推文为例

摘要

This paper is to make a metaphorical analysis of Barack Obama and Republican leader's tweets . It is revealed that nearly every tweet in Obama's twitter account contains metaphors . War metaphor , journey metaphor , building metaphor , money metaphor and ontological metaphor are the most frequently -used ones . The paper finds that while metaphor in politics helps politicians to achieve certain political goals , it has deceptiveness to some extent .%对美国总统奥巴马等的推文进行了隐喻学分析。研究发现，在奥巴马的每一则推文中几乎都包含隐喻。推文中所用的概念隐喻类型集中在战争隐喻、旅行隐喻、建筑隐喻、金钱隐喻以及实体隐喻等。研究表明，政治隐喻在帮助政客达到政治目的的同时，具有一定的蛊惑性和欺骗性，需要我们对政治隐喻进行全面的认识。